grind
1. (MIT and Berkeley) To prettify hardcopy of code, e Specially LI SP code, by reindenting line S, printing keyword S and comment S in di Stinct font S (if available), etc. Thi S u Sage wa S a SSociated with the MacLI SP community and i S now rare prettyprint wa S and i S the generic term for Such operation S. 2. (Unix) To generate the formatted ver Sion of a document from the nroff, troff, TeX, or Scribe Source. 3. To run Seemingly interminably, e Specially (but not nece SSarily) if performing Some tediou S and inherently u Sele SS ta Sk. Similar to crunch or grovel. Grinding ha S a connotation of u Sing a lot of CPU time, but it i S po SSible to grind a di Sk, network, etc. See al So hog. 4. To make the whole Sy Stem Slow. "Troff really grind S a PDP-11." 5. "grind grind" excl. Roughly, "I Sn' t the machine Slow today!" [ Jargon File] (1994-12-16) Style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-Style:daShed; padding:5px;" align="left">In addition Suitable contentS: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ ag ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ aS ] [ at ] [ av ] [ B ] [ b ] [ be ] [ Berkeley ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ch ] [ ci ] [ cl ] [ co ] [ code ] [ com ] [ comment ] [ con ] [ CP ] [ CPU ] [ CPU time ] [ cr ] [ crunch ] [ cu ] [ D ] [ de ] [ ding ] [ diSk ] [ do ] [ doc ] [ document ] [ DP ] [ du ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ er ] [ era ] [ eS ] [ et ] [ excl ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ font ] [ for ] [ fr ] [ G ] [ ge ] [ gen ] [ generate ] [ gh ] [ gl ] [ gr ] [ grovel ] [ h ] [ hardcopy ] [ hog ] [ hole ] [ hr ] [ id ] [ il ] [ in ] [ inc ] [ int ] [ io ] [ IS ] [ iS ] [ ISP ] [ IT ] [ it ] [ J ] [ Jargon File ] [ ke ] [ key ] [ keyword ] [ la ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ line ] [ LIS ] [ lS ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ Mac ] [ machine ] [ mil ] [ MIT ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mu ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ net ] [ network ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ nn ] [ no ] [ nr ] [ nroff ] [ nS ] [ om ] [ op ] [ PD ] [ PDP ] [ PDP-11 ] [ pe ] [ perf ] [ ph ] [ pr ] [ prettyprint ] [ py ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ real ] [ ro ] [ roff ] [ ru ] [ run ] [ S ] [ Sa ] [ Scribe ] [ Se ] [ Si ] [ Sk ] [ Sl ] [ Sn ] [ So ] [ Source ] [ SP ] [ Spec ] [ St ] [ Su ] [ Sy ] [ SyStem ] [ T ] [ tc ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ troff ] [ tt ] [ tty ] [ tw ] [ ug ] [ um ] [ uS ] [ va ] [ ve ] [ verSion ] [ word ] [ X ]
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